Making Fruit Concentrate Wine - Part 2

Part 2 shows you the sanitizing process of your materials you need to make wine. Also covered is adding the Bentonite clay fining agent to the primary fermenter along with adding the frozen grape concentrate juice and water.

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Howto & Style

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• How to make wine
• Welch's Grape Fruit Juice Wine
• making wine from fruit juice
• making wine from grape juice

[dinguspj]

Thanks for the great videos - Ive been reading a little on the use of Bentonite and Pectic Enzyme together, (winepress.us/forums/index.php­?/topic/16895-bentonite-and-pe­ctic-enzyme)

What are your thoughts and have you used your recipe without the Bentonite?

[bsntechdotcom]

@dinguspj

Yes, I have made wine without using bentonite. Bentonite does help to clear the wine quicker - but if you have time, you don't need to use it if you are patient and allow the wine to age for 3 - 5 months.

[winespiller]

can u tell me at what point u de-gass wine? mines been sitting 4 wks since fermentation...tks

[bsntechdotcom]

@winespiller

I actually do not de-gas the wine and have found it un-necessary. After fermentation is fully completed, I'll add the potassium metabisulfate/campden tablets and potassium sorbate and then mix that in. I'll then put the airlock back over it and let it sit for another few weeks. Then I will rack it into another container to get the sediment out and let it sit for as long as possible - between 2 - 4 months. This helps clear the wine as well.

[ostmash]

Nice vidoes! really instructive and you explain every step really good!

But doesnt the concentrate have alot of sugar it it already?

[bsntechdotcom]

@ostmash Yes it does, but the sugar content of the concentrate is not enough intially. Sure, you can make wine without adding sugar. I believe in this video I showed that the Specific Gravity was at 1.050 before adding any sugar. If you do not add any sugar, this will have a maximum amount of 7.5% alcohol. By raising the Specific Gravity to 1.100 as I do in the video, that will allow a maximum of 15% alcohol.

[losermonster]

@Adol666 That's a great tip, thanks

[Adol666]

Alittle tip on the star san. Take a gallon of distilled water and mix up your star san and put it in a gallon jug. Put some in a spray bottle and sanitize by spraying your equipment. With distilled water your star san will last ALONG time. If you use tap water star san breaks down fast and gets cloudy. This way you can save money on star san instead of dumping out all those gallons down the drain. Happy Vinting!

[TheTruthseeker711]

Hey you didn't sanitize the de-gasser before stirring!  Great videos, though. I'm going to try it!

[Markohoppis]

I read that 2 and half pounds of sugar per gallon (about 300 grams per liter) gets you about a 14% ABV dry wine.

In Welch's grape juice, I believe there is 40 grams of sugar per cup which gives about 169 grams of sugar per liter, about 56% of the amount of sugar required. It seems you would add about 2.5 cups of sugar to a gallon to get the required amount.